cant export DLL file properly

[heady stump]

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[civic thicket]

You would need to rather use DllImport: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.runtime.interopservices.dllimportattribute

[plush dome]

but wouldnt that get rid of the code autocompletion / intellisense?

afaik the libs i imported via project reference so far all supported direct code completion when trying to use them via using myLib;

[civic thicket]

You would declare the external function's signature and then it can be used in IntelliSense.

[plush dome]

would that still be the case when i use it on another C++ project? cause the lib im writing will mostly benefit my other C++ projects in the future (replica of C# HttpClient cause i work a lot with REST APIs)

i put a lot of value into autocomplete cause i can tab through everything

[civic thicket]

Another C++ project would also need the declarations of the functions in the DLL.

Usually the DLL project would create header files containing those declarations.

[plush dome]

and when i have the header file i would not need such declarations?

cause i think i made an error in my general code structure / build process

[civic thicket]

The header files contain the declarations.

[plush dome]

i never had issues with DLL imports as project references

in this case my header files are correct

i saw a few tutorials by now and they all use project reference import

which then they could just put using libName; and had access to its functions

[civic thicket]

Those are probably C# projects, not C++.

C# DLLs are different from C++ DLLs.

[plush dome]

ill try DLLImport

what if i were to make a .lib project, a static library

could i embed that directly into my C++ projects?

[civic thicket]

You would still need to include the headers.

[plush dome]

yes

the only libs i ever wrote were Java and C# fpr NuGet

ill try static libs i think they are more of what im looking for

[heady stump]

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